Troll Timeline

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Consumerium timeline

Earliest troll murmurings on various blogs like Greenpeace, wanting a way to link barcode to NGO opinions at point of purchase
Adbusters proposes a program of this kind
March - Consumerium starts
summer - glossary and Consumerium Concepts emerge
September - discussions on how to change mediawiki to support Consumerium begin
October - types of countries, pricing, and use of Simple English to send buy signals
March - trollist ideology spreads, notably via Wikipedia red faction
May - faction model begins to spread, notably to OurAnswer
detailed critique of Wikimedia corruption to guide Consumerium Governance Organization to avoid the same mistakes, many of them obvious
July - some design proposals and requirements statements start to be good enough even for trolls